[Info-vax] Hopelessly Pathetic Hardware Parts

[Hans Vlems]

On 28 aug, 21:08, Marc Van Dyck <marc.gr.vand... at invalid.skynet.be>
wrote:
> Hans Vlems explained on 27/08/2012 :
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> > On 25 aug, 10:20, Marc Van Dyck <marc.gr.vand... at invalid.skynet.be>
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> >> Hans Vlems used his keyboard to write :
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> >>> On 23 aug, 21:07, Marc Van Dyck <marc.gr.vand... at invalid.skynet.be>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>> ChrisQ was thinking very hard :
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> >>>>> On 08/23/12 04:42, Paul Sture wrote:
> >>>>>> This is a completely different story to the HP Microserver I bought last
> >>>>>> December.
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> >>>>>> These come with a screwdriver and enough correct screws to fit 4 disks,
> >>>>>> all neatly arranged on the inside of the front door. Mine has empty
> >>>>>> slots for 4 further screws. Presumably if I had ordered the same model
> >>>>>> without an optical drive, those screws would be present.
> >>>>> Well, they must have learned something from Compaq then :-). Compaq
> >>>>> machines came with a set of spare screws inside the case, in their own
> >>>>> little tapped holes, specially for the purpose. You could get any
> >>>>> Compaq machine to bits and replace drives, whatever with a single torx
> >>>>> driver.
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> >>>>> Properly sorted...
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> >>>>> Regards,
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> >>>>> Chris
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> >>>> That reminds me of the VAXstation 9000 series, that were so well
> >>>> engineered that you could exchange all replaceable parts with no tool
> >>>> at all. I still have a working VAXstation 9600 + expansion box at
> >>>> home...
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> >>> What is a VAXstation 9600? Or did you mean a VAXstation 4000-96?
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> >> Yes, 4000-96, sorry for the mistake.
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> > Nice system Marc. I own VAXstation 4000-90A's and consider them pretty
> > fast.
> > The build quality is good, one of the three has a hardware problem: a
> > nonfunctional grphics card.
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> > Hans
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> Yes it is a nice system. Present from my manager when I left Digital
> in January 1999. It was purchased as a 90A but the motherboard failed,
> and as there was no 90A in stock, a 96 motherboard was installed
> instead. I did not complain !
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> It's now in cluster with an XP900 and an RX2600 should follow soon,
> for the mythical 3-architecture cluster...
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In 1988 I got my first VAX, a VAXstation 2000. It was replaced by a VS
3100-GPX, a
VS 4000-60 to what it is now: a VS 4000-90A.
I've never used a 4000-96 and am still looking for a replacement
motherboard....
Hans